Garment hanger



United States Patent GARlVIENT HANGER Irving Seidman, New York, N. Y.

Application May 19, 1953, Serial No. 355,989

3 Claims. (Cl. 21186) This invention relates to clothes hangers.

Broadly, it is an object of the invention to provide a garment hanger for supporting a multiplicity of conventional clothes hangers upon which the garments are hung.

It is well known that in city apartments there is generally a lack of closet space. This is especially apparent when visitors or guests arrive during the winter months with overcoats to be temporarily stored during their visit. In most instances the visitors garments are placed upon a bed until time for departure. Such temporary storing does not help to preserve the shape of the garment, and results in the loss of the use of a room for the visitors, and is a disadvantage in many other respects.

Door hangers of various kinds have been provided for such temporary storage which are adapted to be removably or permanently attached to a closet or room door. Such hangers scratch or mar the finish of the door and have other objectionable disadvantages, such as taking up a lot of room in storing the hanger while it is not being used.

I have, therefore, provided a garment hanger which can be stored in a minimum of space, such as a drawer, which can be simply assembled for use and which can be removably attached upon the opposed terminals of a door hinge pin. Furthermore, the hanger is adjustable to any size of door hinge used in the home or apartment and can support many garments. In fact, the greater number of garments so stored, the greater the grip the ends of the arms have upon the terminals of the door hinge pin.

Other advantages of the garment hanger is that it will pivot or swing with the door of a closet when the door is opened and it can support the garments hung in spaced relationship to each other.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference is bad to the following detailed description in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which: a

Fig. l is a side view of the multiple garment hanger with the horizontal arm partly broken away.

Fig. 2 is an end view of same with the vertical arm partly broken away.

Fig, 3 is a sectional view taken along line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken along line 44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the gripping ends of the arms showing that such gripping ends are adapted for gripping comparatively fiat ended hinge pins as distinguished from the spherical ended hinge pin shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the entire device in reduced form showing the manner of placing the parts for either shipping or storing.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view, partly broken away, of the lower portion of a modified pivoted member.

Fig. 8 is a view of a plate which could be used as a substitute for a hinge.

Referring to the drawing, numeral 10 represents the main hanger bar of rectangular cross section having its inner end 11 twisted in a plane at a right angle to the plane of the bar 10. The extreme end 12 of bar 10 is formed with a concave circular depression 13 facing upward and a pair of upstanding opposed lugs 14 at the outer end and a pair of opposed shoulder lugs 15 at the inner end. Lugs 14 and 15 are adapted to freely receive the lower end of the lower knuckle 16 of the door hinge pin, the knuckle of which is generally spherical, as shown at 16 in Fig. l, or of a flattened type with rounded edges, as shown at 16a in Fig. 5. The depression 13 accommodates both types of knuckles and permits the extreme end 12 to freely engage and be well seated upon the lower knuckle 16 of the hinge pin. When upward pressure is created upon the extreme end 12 by the hanging of garments upon the main bar 10, the lugs 14 and 15 prevent the bar 10 from becoming dislodged from the hinge, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The main hanger bar 10 is provided with a pivoted U- shaped member 17 which is attached nearer the inner end of bar 10 by pivot pin 18. Member 17 comprises an upper arm 19, a lower arm 20 and a vertical plate 21; both arms 19 and 20 being bent in the same direction and at right angles to the vertical plate 21. Both the upper arm 19 and the lower arm 20 have aligned rectangular slots 22 and 23, respectively through which the vertical hanger link bar 24 is passed, as will be more fully explained hereinafter; slots 22 and 23 being somewhat larger than the cross sectional area of bar 24. The front end of the lower arm 20 has a pair of opposed lugs 25, the inner ends of which are aligned with the front end of the slot 23. Lugs 25 are above and below the lower arm 20, as best seen in Fig. 1 and may be bent from the material of the slot 23 or may be brazed or soldered to the arm 20. The lugs 25 are suificiently long to override the notches in bar 24.

Bar 10 has a series of notches 26 along its upper edge, preferably spaced uniformly apart for the purpose of receiving the wire hooks 27 of standard garment hangers and to prevent these hangers from sliding together upon bar 10. v

The main hanger bar 10 is to be seated in a substantially horizontal position upon the door hinge and to accomplish this purpose the auxiliary link bar 24 of the same rectangular bar stock as bar 10 is provided. The link bar 24 is formed with a relatively long arm 28, which is passed through the slots 22, 23 of the pivoted member 17 in the assembly in use and a short arm 30. The long arm 28 has a series of spaced square notches 29 along the edge of bar 24 farthest from the hinge, or facing the front or outer end of the device. Notches 29 permit adjustment and seating of the device upon hinge pins of different sizes or heights by simply shifting the pivoted member 17 higher or lower along the vertical link bar 24. The short arm 30 is twisted and bent at its upper end at a right angle to the long arm 28 so that the plane is also at a right angle to the long arm 28. The inner or extreme end of the short arm 31) extends substantially the same distance from the long arm 28 as the extreme end 12 of bar 10 extends from the pivot pin 18. The extreme end 31 is formed with a concave circular depression 32 facing downward and a pair of depending opposed lugs 33 at the outer end adapted to receive the upper end of the upper knuckle 34 of the door hinge pin and freely engage and be firmly seated upon the knuckle 34, the lugs 33 gripping the knuckle 34 and preventing displacement of the device.

In assembling the device, the long arm 28 of the verti cal link bar 24 is passed through the slots 22 and 23 of the upper and lower arms 19 and 20 of the pivoted mem ber 17 so that the end 31 is substantially aligned with V the upper hinge pin. 7 is then-seatedupon the lower knuckle 16 of the hinge pin.

the end 12 of the main bar it), the notches 29 facing towards the front of the device; The end 31 of the upper short arm 30 is then seated upon the upper knuckle 34 of The end 12 of the main bar it The member 17 is then pivoted so that the front portion 7 '35 of the upper arm 19 moves into one of the notches 29 when the main bar it} is substantially in a horizontal position. The lugs 25 rest upon the front edge of arm '28.

V V The device will thus be supported from the hinge and a 7 number of garments upon clothes hangers may then be hung upon bar '10 within the notches 26. The more clothes and the greater the weight hung upon bar 110, the

greaterthe gripping power of the ends 12 and 31 of the main bar and bar on the knuckles of the hinge pin 7 'due to the pincer-like'action of the device upon the hinge pin.

the auxiliary hanger link bar extends, said vertical plate 7 being pivotally mounted on said mainoar adjacent the inner end thereof, the outer edge of the slot in thetop arm of the U-shaped member selectively engaging the notches in the outer edge of said long arm for adjustably. connecting the main and auxiliary bars in clamping engagement with the hinge pin.

2. A clothes hanger of the character described for removably mounting upon door hinges having hinge-pins of a varying lengths and extending hinge-pin knuckles, a main hanger flat bar for horizontal extension endwise from a door hinge, means at'the inner end of said main bar for V releasably engaging the lower end of a hinge-pin knuckle,

When the device is thus in use it is possible to open a thedoor since the device with the garments thereon will pivot horizontally upon the hinge pin;

When the device is not in use it may easily be dis- T engaged from the hinge pin by lifting the front of bar 10 and be disassembled by pivoting the front portion 35 ofthe upper arm 19 out of the notch 29 and drawing the long arm 28 through the slots'22, 23. The bars 10 and 2 4 may then be placed together in a comparatively small space, 'as shown in Fig. 6, and placed in a narrow and shallow packing carton for convenient storage in a drawer;

It is obvioussthat instead of mounting the device upon a door hinge as; hereinbefore described, it might be mounted up n or supported by a plate 36 fashioned'as asubstitute or equivalent of such a hinge, as shown in Fig. 8; r a a 7 It, is also obvious that various changes and modificatiQHS may be made in the details of construction and arrangement of parts without departing fromthegeneral spirit of the invention.

I claim: is ,W -l t l 1. A clothes hanger of the character describedsfor removably mounting upon door hinges having hinge-pins of. varying lengths and extending hinge-pin knuckles, a main hanger bar for horizontal extension endwise from 'a door hinge, means at the inner end of, said main bar;

for releasably engaging the lower end of a hinge-pin knuckle, said means comprising a depression facing up wardly, a pair'of upstanding opposed lugs adjacent'said. depression at the extreme end, and a pair of opposed shoulder lugs at the innerjend adjacent said depression,

spaced notches along the upper edge of said main bar.

for receiving the wire hooks of garment hangers, an auxiliary hanger link bar for positioning vertically adjacent the hinge and across the inner end of said main hanger bar, said' auxiliary hanger link bar having an 7 upper horizontal short arm' and a vertical long arm bent ,at a right angle thereto, means at the inner end of said short arm for releasably engaging the upper end of said hinge-pin knuckle, said last-named means comprising a depression facing downwardly and a pair of opposed lugs adjacent said last-named depression at the extreme end, notches. in the outer edge of'said long arm, a substan-' tially 'U-shaped. memberjincluding a vertical plate and top and bottom arms extending atiri ght angles'to the vertical plate, said last mentioned-arms having registering elongated slots. through which the vertical'long arm of an auxiliary hanger link bar for positioning vertically adjacent the hinge and across the inner end of said main hanger bar, said auxiliaryhanger link bar having an upper horizontal short arm and a vertical long arm at a right angle thereto, means at the inner end of said short arm for releasably engaging the upper end ofsaid hinge pin' knuckle, .a substantially "L -shaped member; including a vertical plate and top and bottom arms extending at right angles to the vertical plate, said last mentioned arms having registering elongated slots through which the vertical long ar rn of the auxiliary hanger. link fhar extends, said vertical plate 'being pivotally mounted. on said main bar adjacent the'inner end-thereof, the outer edge of the slot in the top arm of the l J-shapedmember selectively engaging the notches. in the outeriedge ofsaid long arm for 'adjustably connecting the main and a-uxiiiary 'bars in clamping engagement with the hinge pin.

3. A clot-hes hanger of the character described for re- 7 movably n iount-ing upon door hinges having hinge-pins V of-va r-yi ng lengths-and extending hinge-pinknucklesfia main hanger fiat bar for horizontal extension endwise from a door h inge, means at the inner end of said main barfor r'eleasably engaging the lower end of a hinge-pin knuckle, an auxiliary hanger -li'nk bar for positioning vertically adjacent the hinge and across :the

inner end of said main hanger bar,- said aux-. ,iiiary hanger link -barihaving means antenna: end for releasably engaging the upper end of said h-inge 7 pin k-nuoklea substantially -U-shaped member including a vertical plate and top and bottom arms extending at right angles to the vertical plate, said last mentioned arms "having registering elongated-slots through which the vertical long :arm of the auxiliary hanger link bar ex tends, :said vertical :plate being pivotally mounted '-on said 7 main bar adjacent the inner end thereof, the outer edges of the slot in the 'top arm of the U-shaped rnenrber' se- 'lectively engaging. the notches in the outerfied'ge'bfisaid long arm for .adjustahl-y connecting the main and auxiliary V 7 bars .in clamping engagement with the hinge pin, and means on said bottom arm to prevent :the'outer edge'of the slot therein'frorn entering'one of said notches in the outer edge of said long arm. 7

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